UCL alumnus Vishal Kumar has secured $2 million in seed funding for his startup Camera Intelligence, which is developing an AI-powered camera platform designed to simplify professional content creation. @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @uclenterprise.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

"Switching off the theatres when not in use reduces energy consumption by a factor greater than the fractional reduction of time in use" New paper in Royal Society Interface from work last year supported by UCLPartners. cc @yrkalaji.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#ucldigifest today looking forward to exploring the digital twin, digital tech for education and the communities developing at UCL - @jamespjh.bsky.social getting us started

Sense, Deploy, Communicate: Connected Environments MSc Show 18 July-03 August 1st Floor Galleries, UCL East Marshgate Opening night: 17 July, 18:00-20:00 Join us later this month to enjoy Connected Environments MSc students' graduating projects at their final show. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...

Day 3 CUPUM “like day 3 at Glastonbury” says @adamdennett.bsky.social so great to sit down to listen to the @casaucl.bsky.social legend Mike

Day 2 at CUPUM up next @fryrsquared.bsky.social and starting with a lovely game! Cc @casaucl.bsky.social

And here we go with CUPUM @casaucl.bsky.social great intro from conf chair @adamdennett.bsky.social and liking the hat tip to @digitalurban.bsky.social metaverse of posters.

www.iot.io/blog/2025/06... New book from the @casaucl.bsky.social connected environments folk will be hitting shelves soon.

The window to register is closing! Lock down your attendance at CUPUM this year before this Saturday's deadline.

Great blog by @djdunc.bsky.social describing drone surveying of flowers for pollinators near oilseed rape fields last week, in association with our pan-European WildPosh project www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

Some notes on getting started with the DJI Matrice 4E www.iot.io/blog/2025/04...

Term 2 complete and a lovely partial solar eclipse: www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

In the 80's Design Technology was my favourite A-Level - now watching my daughter enjoy it as much as I did - I would have loved to design a pavilion #D&T #designtech

Hello Robin. Only the second time this box in the garden has been used.

It may feel as though we live in dark times, but here in the UK there are LOADS of science festivals celebrating ideas, sparking curiosity & sharing the latest research (for both adults & kids). Someone told me recently they didn’t know where to look, so I made a list. Here goes… [deep breath]: 1/8

www.iot.io/blog/2025/03... notes from the week

This weeks side project - orthomosiac experiment www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

Congratulations to Prof Michael Batty, whose book The Computable City has won a prize at the recent #PROSEAwards (Professional and Scholarly Excellence). Prof Batty's book was named by @americanpublish.bsky.social as a joint finalist in the category for Architecture and Urban Planning.

The Bartlett, UCL has been ranked the #1 place in the world to study architecture and the built environment for the third year in a row in The QS World Rankings by Subject 2025. We also remain #1 in the UK for the 11th consecutive year. www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

have been doing some more vibe coding this week www.iot.io/blog/2025/03...

Glorious swim in the sunshine this lunch time at Park Road Lido in Haringey. Pity it is closed at prime time given the sunk costs of keeping this running.

This is great, reposting so I can find later.

Congrats to the new Dr Santiago Martinez Balvanera @ucl-pnl.bsky.social - we even managed a drink outside to end the week! Was lovely to bump into @alex-rogers.bsky.social - a longer chat is needed next time you are around.

Thanks @genmon.fyi for being so generous with your time today talking about poem.town with @casaucl.bsky.social students - wise words as always and lovely to end with the mini crit of their live projects.

HRH the Princess Royal visiting the People and Nature lab last week

This weeks note points to the small things behind the scenes that often end up being the 80% of keeping IoT alive www.iot.io/blog/2025/02...

A new opportunity to work with our expanding #eDNA and #biodiversity lab as a postdoc looking at human impacts across space and time with terrestrial airborne eDNA. UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship funded opportunity based at the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Good turnout at Bartlett open evening tonight for enquiries about both CE and USS programmes @casaucl.bsky.social if you missed tonight there is a second open evening next Wednesday at UCL East

Managed to get a peak at some pretty impressive enterprise DJI kit yesterday www.iot.io/blog/2025/01... would love to explore the thermal imaging along the banks of the river Lea @freshwaterizzy.bsky.social

“In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.” retool.com/pipes I liked this version of the internet! Explored pipes during a hackathon at yahoo london www.iot.io/2009/05/15/h...

Inspired by @revdancatt.com at #papercamp3 I have finally acquired a pen plotter... www.iot.io/blog/2025/01...

Hey everyone! We're looking for articles for a special issue in Urban Planning journal: 🏙️ The Urban Canvas: Spatial Computing in Planning, Analysing, and Representing the Cityscape🏙️ 🗓️Important Dates: Abstracts: Sept 2025 Full Articles: Jan 2026 More info: www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplannin...

A new year check of the sensors in the @ucl-pnl.bsky.social nature smart garden - Lora devices all happy and pond is looking full again - wondering if this is rain or manually filled?

Here's the launch. The excellent Rachel McKendry has just introduced the PM. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

Wishing i was getting a Dopplr report like it was 2008 cc @moleitau.bsky.social @biddul.ph www.iot.io/blog/2024/12...

Still smiling from the @casaucl.bsky.social Xmas social last night - the CASA band absolutely smashed it. Nice one @sjg.dev @adamdennett.bsky.social @claudelynch.bsky.social Thomas, Adam’s friend and a special nod to Aila who is one of this years USS students! cc @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

Term 1 complete, now to focus on preparing a submission to CUPUM 2025 being organised by the excellent @adamdennett.bsky.social and @casaucl.bsky.social team www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/cas...

S4T1 completed - Harry Potter room occupancy, Stratford radar station, Prosecco and Panettone at @casaucl.bsky.social www.iot.io/blog/2024/12...

@vsigno.bsky.social @digitalurban.bsky.social @leahlo.bsky.social - this one might be of interest.

Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground is now available to pre-order from @uclpress.bsky.social It features the Time Telephone by @vsigno.bsky.social on the cover, and our chapter, From Interfaces to Memories, on transmitting memories of play uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...

Lovely walk around London and visit to Frameless with my sis earlier this week - another potential one for our MSc students to visit - open to suggestions for where next... www.iot.io/blog/2024/12...

really interesting project and lovely people to collaborate with - am open to ideas around connected environments in this domain

Wahoo! Congrats Leah - Engagement Leader Award winner at the inaugural UCL East Engagement Awards cc @casaucl.bsky.social @leahlo.bsky.social

@casaucl.bsky.social CE students had a first significant crit this week on Martins module - some impressive looking prototypes. Looking forward to hearing about these! Looks like they got straight into 3D printing this year! Photo by Yaman or Simon!

*Amazing Job Opportunity!* Head of Museums and Cultural Programmes, UCL Permanent, full time £66,711–£72,370 Closes 18 December 2024 Come work with me! www.linkedin.com/posts/catrio...

Reading “a computer in the art room” by Catherine Mason “These pioneers had a real vision of the arts and sciences coming together for greater understanding and creativity on both sides.” - enjoying learning about the early days of the Slade - via Winnie www.catherinemason.co.uk/product/a-co...

A little video of our class trip to Science Museum now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd-L... along with a little note on the blog www.iot.io/blog/2024/11... cc @casaucl.bsky.social and @leahlo.bsky.social

One of the fun things we get to teach our MSc students is to develop historical and scientific knowledge of their field of study - the Information Age exhibit at the wonderful @sciencemuseumldn.bsky.social covers the laying of the first telegraphic cables to mobile tech - ta @leahlo.bsky.social

Lovely to see how Chrono Lumina (a light installation in Connected Environments lab) keeps on changing as students develop their projects to control the lights over #MQTT - some more info is over here: www.iot.io/blog/2024/11...